Noche UFC officially marked the arrival of Mexican fighting culture to mixed martial arts.
This past Saturday, Noche UFC went down on Mexican Independence Day, Sept. 16, in Las Vegas, with a card full of Mexican and Mexican-American fighters, including women’s flyweight champ Alexa Grasso retaining her title by fighting Valentina Shevchenko to a split draw.
Controversy in the headliner aside, Noche UFC delivered in both action fights and a rocking atmosphere as T-Mobile Arena was packed with fans flying Mexican flags to celebrate the event.
Noche UFC is an outlier when it comes to themed events from the UFC, but should the promotion make this an annual thing and/or embrace doing more events like it? Our “Spinning Back Clique” panel of Mike Bohn, Farah Hannoun and Brian “Goze” Garcia answered that with host “Gorgeous” George Garcia.
Watch their discussion in the video above, and don’t miss this week’s full episode below on YouTube or in podcast form.
